Posted on 09/24/2018 7:56:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer said Monday that word of an alleged sexual assault committed by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while he was in college spread to the Senate and the media before the magazine reached out to his accuser.
“She didn’t come forward with it,” Mayer said NBC’s “Today” show.
“What happened was, the classmates at Yale were talking to each other about it, they were emailing about it. We’ve seen the emails, back in July before Christine Blasey Ford came forward, and eventually the word of it spread," Mayer added, referring to the woman who earlier this month publicly accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while the two were in high school.
Mayer noted that the latest allegations eventually “spread to the Senate" and "to the media," which led to her and New Yorker contributing writer Ronan Farrow reaching out to the woman.
“After giving it really careful consideration for six days, she decided to talk to [Ronan Farrow],” she said.
Her comments came a day after Mayer and Farrow authored a report detailing a sexual assault accusation against Kavanaugh stemming from his time as a student at Yale University in the 1980s.
Deborah Ramirez is accusing Kavanaugh of exposing himself in front of her and causing her to touch his penis without her consent during a party while the two were in college.
Ramirez has admitted that she was drunk when the alleged incident took place, but expressed confidence that her memory is accurate after discussing it with a lawyer.
"We wouldn’t have run this if we didn’t have a careful basis of people who had heard at the time and found her credible," Farrow said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday.
Kavanaugh has denied the claim, calling it a "smear, plain and simple."
The New Yorker report notes that at least two Democratic offices are investigating the incident. The story was published a week after Ford came forward and detailed an alleged sexual assault committed by Kavanaugh while they were in high school.
Kavanaugh and Ford are scheduled to testify regarding her claims on Thursday. Senate Democrats are calling for the hearing to be postponed in wake of the new allegation.
B.S.
The Left LIES with Impunity!! They KNOW NOTHING about GOODNESS!
And now a story that the woman says she doesn't remember has become an allegation, only because it's "possible" that it might have happened.
That's how desperate the Democrats are. They are willing to smear a man with a despicable allegation from thirty years ago if it was "possible"!
A new low in America.
Who was emailing about it ... all the people who weren’t there but had heard of it? Let’s see the emails or shut up,
Vote Judge Kavanaugh in now. Do an investigation after confirmation (which will show none of this happened because EVERY name Ramirez and Ford gave claims Kavanaugh did Not do this) Kavanaugh should sue every Ford, Ramirez, and Every paper that published this without credible witnesses. Sue them out of existence....drain the media swamp. Judge Kavanaugh will be a rich man, but money will never make up for what he and his family have suffered. Especially his innocent girls. Praying for them all.
“Ramirez has admitted that she was drunk when the alleged incident took place, but expressed confidence that her memory is accurate after discussing it with a lawyer.”
The New Yorker is feeling the heat. Bwahahahahaha
OK, so let me get this straight...The Senate had TWO instances of supposed sexual assault and sat on it during the ENTIRE confirmation hearings? REALLY?
Except for the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, how stupid do the Dems think we are?
Brett forced me to sit through an AMWAY presentation in 1987. I want a place at the hearing.
The Deep State is sending a message. They play for keeps, and it doesn’t matter who you are, if you oppose us, we will destroy you.
“We wouldn’t have run this if we didn’t have a careful basis of people who had heard at the time and found her credible,” Farrow said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday.
What crap. Makes this guy Rolan Farrow look like the two bit a hold journalist he is.
Are all liberal girls in college alcoholics and psychologist?
Don’t give the left any ideas!
OK, what are their names? Lets subpoena them to testify under penalty of perjury before Congress. If they want to play this little game, lets play.
I have an idea that people in my generation are inherently honest. I have the idea that Feinstein was not going to release this stuff because it was bogus, and she knew it.
But the left leaked it at the 11th hour. So, her hands were tied.
Good news is that it’s exposing them all.
Funny though, how does Fox News come up with a poll that finds over 80% thinking Kavanaugh is guilty?
Wouldn't doubt that democrat senate witches DiFi and Maizy wouldn't take raw rumor (sewage) and run it to the media as if it were pure gold.
We need to toughen up. The communist have started a Cold War. Just pray they never take power again.
That’s what good psych-coaching will do for one.
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